The information given in the Qur'an about ancient Egypt reveals many historical facts that had remained undisclosed until recent times. These facts also indicate to us that every word in the Qur'an has been revealed by sure wisdom.

Haman is a character whose name is mentioned in the Qur'an, along with the Pharaoh. He is recorded in six different places of the Qur'an as one of the closest men to the Pharaoh.

Surprisingly the name of Haman is never mentioned in those sections of the Torah pertaining to the life of Moses. However, the mention of Haman can be found in the last chapters of the Old Testament as the helper of a Babylonian king who inflicted many cruelties on the Israelites approximately 1,100 years after Moses.

Some non-Muslims, who claim that the Prophet Mohammed wrote the Qur'an by copying from the Torah and the Bible, also assert that during the process, he transferred some of the subjects related in these books into the Qur'an incorrectly.

The absurdity of these claims was demonstrated only after the Egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet had been deciphered, approximately 200 years ago, and the name "Haman" discovered in the ancient scripts.
Before these discoveries, the writings and inscriptions of ancient Egypt could not be understood. The language of ancient Egypt was hieroglyphic, which survived through the ages. However, with the spread of Christianity and other cultural influences in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, Egypt forsook its ancient beliefs as well as hieroglyphic writing. The last known example of the use of hieroglyphic writing was an inscription dated 394 AD. Then that language was forgotten, leaving nobody who could read and understand it. And that was the situation until some 200 years ago…

The mystery of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics was solved in 1799 by the discovery of a tablet called the Rosetta Stone dating back to 196 B.C. The importance of this inscription was that it was written in three different forms of writing: Hieroglyphics, demotic (a simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing) and Greek. With the help of the Greek script, the ancient Egyptian writings were decoded. The translation of the inscription was completed by a Frenchman named Jean-Françoise Champollion. Hence a forgotten language and the events related in it were brought to light. In this way, a great deal of knowledge about the civilization, religion and social life of ancient Egypt became available.

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The result revealed a very important truth. Unlike the false assertion of the opponents of the Qur'an, Haman was a person who lived in Egypt at the time of Moses, who had been close to the Pharaoh, and had been involved in construction work, just as imparted in the Qur'an.

Furthermore, the verse in the Qur'an describing the event where the Pharaoh asked Haman to build a tower is in perfect agreement with this archaeological finding:

"Pharaoh said, 'Council, I do not know of any other god for you apart from Me. Haman, kindle a fire for me over the clay and build me a lofty tower so that perhaps I may be able to climb up to Moses' god! I consider him a blatant liar.'" (Surat al-Kasas: 38)

In conclusion, the existence of the name Haman in the ancient Egyptian inscriptions not only rendered the fabricated claims of the opponents of the Qur'an worthless, but also confirmed one more time the fact that the Qur'an comes from Allah. In a miraculous way, the Qur'an conveys to us historical information that could not have been possessed or understood at the time of the Prophet.


(1) Walter Wreszinski, Aegyptische Inschriften aus dem K.K. Hof Museum in Wien, 1906, J. C. Hinrichs' sche Buchhandlung
(2) Hermann Ranke, Die Ägyptischen Personennamen, Verzeichnis der Namen, Verlag Von J. J. Augustin in Glückstadt, Band I, 1935, Band II, 1952

Yeah, right...

As far as i can remember mohammed didnt visit sudan or egypt. ok say he got this one from them ,then how do you explain all the other extraordinary facts in the quran did he dream these up. It doesnt make sense for the previous people before him to get this fact wrong, eg the christains and jews and then suddenly he comes and corrects them. Also there are also other accuracys about the egyptians in the quran which mohammed couldnt have possibly known.

THE WORD "PHARAOH" IN THE QUR'AN

[align=right]In the Old Testament, the Egyptian ruler during the period of Prophet Ibrahim (as) and Prophet Yusuf (as) are named "Pharaoh." However, this title was actually employed after the eras in which these two Prophets lived. [/align]
While addressing the Egyptian ruler at the time of Prophet Yusuf (as), the word "Al-Malik" in Arabic is used in the Qur'an: It refers to a ruler, king or sultan:

The King said, 'Bring him to me straight away!'… (Qur'an, 12:50)

The ruler of Egypt in the time of the Prophet Musa (as) is referred to as "Pharaoh." This distinction in the Qur'an is not made in the Old and New Testaments nor by Jewish historians. In the Bible, the word "Pharaoh" is used, in every reference to an Egyptian monarch. On the other hand, the Qur'an is far more concise and accurate in the terminology it employs.

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica says that the word "Pharaoh" was a title of respect used from the New Kingdom (beginning with the 18th dynasty; B.C. 1539-1292) until the 22nd dynasty (B.C. 945-730), after which this term of address became the title of the king. Further information on this subject comes from the Academic American Encyclopaedia, which states that the title of Pharaoh began to be used in the New Kingdom.






[align=center]In this way We give you news of what has gone before and We have given you a reminder direct from Us. Those who turn away from it will bear a heavy burden on the Day of Rising.
(Qur’an, 20: 99-100)[/align]

As we have seen, the use of the word "Pharaoh" dates from a specific period in history. For that reason, the fact that the Qur'an distinguishes between the different Egyptian titles in different Egyptian eras is yet another proof that the Qur'an is Allah's Word.

i thought prophet was greek/egyptian and not egyptian

There are so many thingsthat West Asia borrowed and that leaked into Arab and Muslim culture. I then find it audacious to claim that your god gave you this knowledge.

No one denying is that all cultures have absorbed one anothers ideas. In the quran it says that every nation was sent a prophet to preach monotheism and mohammed was the last ofof themessengers. Am sure you know the story of the exodus, Moses a levite was sent to the sent to save the chidlren of israel from the tyranny of the pharoah. Later on they started to worship the golden calf which was in fact an idea they imported from egypt.
And for every Ummah (a community or a nation), there is a Messenger; when their Messenger comes, the matter will be judged between them with justice, and they will not be wronged. (Qur'ân 10:47)
In the quran we are even told that the body of the pharoah will be preserved over time for later generations as a sign for later generations. The quran has also proved correct on other historical events. In the bible we are told noahs flood was universal whereas in the quran it indicates it was a local flood. If your assumption is correct then the question has to be answered who was the mystery person giving this ideas to prophet mohammed.? Historians have found what he said 1400 years to be correct whereas the bible and other accounts have historical erros. It can make sense for a man who couldnt read or write, who never visited egypt and couldnt read hieroglyphs to be stating facts exactly as they happened. Ifhe had absorbed or borrowed his ideas from other cultures eg egyptians then surely the quran would be proven wrong on these historical events.When a story his passed from generation to generation then obviously people will fabricate it and addthere own versions to the story.The quran challenges mankind to find errors in or it orwrite a book like it. Why would someone who copied hisideas from others run this risk surely he knew he would have been exposed .He describedhow the bottom of the sea looks like to exactly as scientists have found out today using divers and technological equipment, are saying this was also absorbed from other cultures. it wasimpossible for an arab living 1400 years ago to describe the bottom of the sea.So again i ask you how is it possible for him to absorb or copy from other cultures and still remainaccurate on subjects which have only been solved by scientistsin this age using advanced equipment and find no flaws in his accounts?

Moses was actually the Pharaoh Akhenaten forced to flee the throne of Egypt with plenty of archaeological evidence to support it.
that certainly is a new one never had that one before

As for the scientific miracles you telling me a man who couldnt read or write living at a time where science was backwards in his region could think of them?

[align=left]H) Scientists’ Comments on the Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran:


The following are some comments of scientists[suP]1[/suP] on the scientific miracles in the Holy Quran. All of these comments have been taken from the videotape entitled This is the Truth. In this videotape, you can see and hear the scientists while they are giving the follow